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Western Calligraphy: The Uncial Alphabet

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Summary: The Uncial form of Western calligraphy has many beautiful facets to it. Learn how to write the Uncial alphabet from a calligraphy expert in this free video clip.

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By Pamela LaRegina
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Pamela LaRegina began her career as a calligrapher/artist by registering her business, Supercalligraphics, with the state of Connecticut in 1976. As soul owner of this monk's cell of a...read more

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"All I'm doing right now, is playing with the uncial. Remember the uncial? So I will call this the 'uncial derived alphabet'. So, if you can look up here a moment. This is the uncial that we spoke about. This is part of our magical history tour, and this was like in the 300's let's say and onward. And, the beautiful thing about the uncial was the simplified forms, the beautiful roundedness of the uncial."

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